Dora

“A measurement, in this context, is an irreversible act in which uncertainty collapses to certainty. It is the link between the quantum and classical worlds, the point where what might happen - multiple paths, interference patterns, spreading clouds of probability - is replaced by what does happen: some event in the classical world, whether the click of a counter, the activation of an optic nerve in someone's eye, or just the coalescence of a glob of matter triggered by a quantum event.”
― john wheeler, kenneth ford

“We perish, each alone, and his remoteness.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
― Walt Whitman

“If I know a song of Africa - I thought - of the giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me?”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa